Heather and the Jabberwocky

A vengeful stalker tracks lovely Heather mercilessly from Hong Kong to France to Georgia as her artist husband fends off a Mexican drug cartel's attempts to disrupt their tranquil academic lives. It's an intelligent fantasy, a daunting mystery and a tantalizing adventure in literary fiction.Unlike the "literary fiction" of old, the author strips away all "highbrow" pretentiousness; creating intelligent, real characters if somewhat "extraordinary, eccentric and bizarre," as in his...
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A vengeful stalker tracks lovely Heather mercilessly from Hong Kong to France to Georgia as her artist husband fends off a Mexican drug cartel's attempts to disrupt their tranquil academic lives. It's an intelligent fantasy, a daunting mystery and a tantalizing adventure in literary fiction.Unlike the "literary fiction" of old, the author strips away all "highbrow" pretentiousness; creating intelligent, real characters if somewhat "extraordinary, eccentric and bizarre," as in his earlier novels. In this tale of international intrigue, there's no room for the hoity-toity.All hope for Heather depends on the Jabberwocky, a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll. When Alice of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland reads the poem, she says, "Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas -- only I don't exactly know what they are." Heather escapes the Caribbean monster Lusca only to rise to the heights of an Aztec sacrificial pyramid. In her desperation she discovers unfathomable ideas from her mind. They aren't understood until made visual by her artist husband. Or is that another illusion from behind the looking glass? As with Alice, everything mirrors everything.